May Day March 2026
Workers Over Billionaires! MAY DAY. Together We Stand.
March for workers’ rights!
Stand up against ICE!
Friday, May 1, 2026, 4-6pm
Solidarity Social pre-event at 2pm
Gather at Public Square (North Lawn)
Organizer: Cleveland May Day Coalition (not to be confused with the May Day Coaliton Project which is not currently active)
Link to the event here: https://www.mobilize.us/mayday/event/921516/
See the Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/share/17N3UFGmDv/
Union + Co-ops Solidarity Circle -- on May 26th at 7PM at Forest City Brewery, we will be taking a deeper look at unions and coops. Labor unions and cooperatives are two strategies that working people have used to build power and fight for what their communities need. We will be exploring the opportunities and challenges that exist at the intersection of these two strategies.
Regsister here.
As trade officials from all three countries prepare to meet and consider changes to the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Together, we’re showing that our communities are united—and that we won’t accept trade rules that leave working people behind.
Regsiter here.
Celebrate 7 years of Cleveland Owns at our Annual Celebration: Growing the Fruits of our Labor!
The Intractable Problem of Poverty, Its Human Costs, and Possible Solutions
Presenters: Chris Knestrick, director of the Northeast Homeless Coalition, and Will Fenton-Jones, director of Multicultural Ministries, Ohio Episcopal Area of the United Methodist Church. Both are noted speakers and advocates for the poor and marginalized.
RSVP to secure your seat to: racialequitybuddies@gmail.com
Audio recordings published by Spain’s Canal RED suggest that US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are allegedly working to facilitate the return of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez to power. The media outlet published alleged audio recordings in which Hernandez, current President Nasry Asfura and a group of Honduran officials are heard discussing in detail a supposed operation driven by the US and financed by Israel to weave a network of corruption in Honduras, with the aim of turning the Central American country into a US investment hub.
Along the Pacific coast of Guatemala on plantations subcontracted by Chiquita, agricultural workers with gaunt faces thread their way between banana trees, rubber boots sinking into black mud, machetes sharpened and strapped to their belts. They know the day will be long: 10 hours, sometimes 12, for a paltry wage – often below the legal minimum.
Although these plantations are certified by Rainforest Alliance (as “safe” for workers and the environment), researchers heard the same accounts from workers over and over: extreme fatigue, inadequate pay, unprotected exposure to chemicals, restrictions on the freedom of association.
The fungicide Mancozeb—banned in the European Union in 2020 after being classified as an endocrine disruptor that’s toxic to reproduction—is routinely sprayed on the banana fields. Without any warning to the workers, the crop dusters fly very low, and the yellow acidic powder falls straight on them. The certification body Rainforest Alliance has granted an exceptional authorization for its use on Guatemalan plantations until December 31, 2028, citing the need for “rigorous disease management” of the Black Sigatoka leaf disease. Other fungicides, herbicides and insecticides are applied throughout the growing cycle, both from the air and workers applying them with backpack sprayers.
This report by Public Eye takes us deep inside the plantations where the global economy meets the silence – and often complicity – of local institutions. It’s a world where thousands of people labor in near-total invisibility. Here, Guatemala’s brutal history is still being written with a machete; it’s a story not of progress, but of sweat, pesticides and drug cocktails to alleviate workers’ aches and pains.
(You can learn about alternative trade organizations that partner with worker-owned banana farms at EqualExchange.coop )
How can members of a community take back control of the resources that shape their lives? Join us on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 7:00-8:30pm ET, for a free webinar with co-op developer and community organizer Jonathan Welle to explore this question.
to register click here
Join us for the screening of "Yanuni" with the Cleveland International Film Festival on april 17th at Playhouse Square
to purchase tickets for the creening click here
Promo Code: IRTF
$1 off any ticket, with the exception of Opening Night, 7x7 Retrospective and Day Pass purchases.
Join us for the screening of "Yanuni" with the Cleveland International Film Festival on april 17th at Cedar Lee Theatre
to purchase tickets for the creening click here (ticket sale will start on march 18th)
Promo Code: IRTF
$1 off any ticket, with the exception of Opening Night, 7x7 Retrospective and Day Pass purchases.
$1 off any ticket, with the exception of Opening Night, 7x7 Retrospective and Day Pass purchases.
